Cis-acting sequences that affect somatic hypermutation of Ig genes

Immunological Reviews

Volumn 162, Issue , 1998, Pages 153-160

  Storb, Ursula ^a   Peters, Andrew ^a   Klotz, Emily ^a   Kim, Nayun ^a   Shen, Hong Ming ^a   Hackett, John ^a   Rogerson, Brian ^a   Martin, Terence E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CIS ACTING ELEMENT; RNA POLYMERASE;

ARTICLE; DNA REPAIR; ENHANCER REGION; EXCISION REPAIR; HOUSEKEEPING GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN GENE; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROMOTER REGION; SOMATIC MUTATION; TRANSGENE;

ANIMALS; DNA REPAIR; GENES, IMMUNOGLOBULIN; HUMANS; IMMUNOGLOBULIN VARIABLE REGION; MUTAGENESIS, INSERTIONAL; RECEPTORS, ANTIGEN, T-CELL; TRANSGENES;

EID: 0031920677     PISSN: 01052896     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1600-065X.1998.tb01438.x     Document Type: Article

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